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In light of the recently published report, UK Journalists in the 2020s: Who they are, how they work, and what they think, Lea ...
In BILD, the country’s largest (conservative) tabloid, there was a slightly more even distribution of bylines, but still heavily skewed towards men (39% male versus 14% female), although its photos of ...
Western European newspapers became significantly more sympathetic towards migrants and refugees immediately after photographs of a drowned boy on a Turkish beach were published at the beginning of ...
Eastern European countries are a particularly good playing field for disseminating disinformation using new information technologies. Especially the Baltic States and Ukraine continue to be the ...
TV Nova, the most popular TV channel in the Czech Republic, is on the verge of becoming the property of the richest man in the country, the billionaire Petr Kellner. TV Nova’s parent company, Central ...
Donald Trump is gone. But more will remain of Trumpism than we would like – and the media will have to come to terms with the extent to which its work has played a role in allowing the former ...
In the UK alternative sites are more mixes, coming from both sides of the political spectrum. Westmonster (2%) is a pro-Brexit site partly funded by right-wing businessman Arron Banks, while the ...
This applies especially to Indian journalism, which is more emotion-centred. A young anchor from the 24-hour news channel Headlines Today (now known as India Today) once told me that journalists ...
Disinformation has been an issue worldwide, especially after the COVID-19 pandemic. Still, the Central and Eastern European experience is unique. The mixture of post-totalitarian legacy, Russian ...
Media agenda-setting theory assumes the public receive news from a limited set of sources and that this encourages a shared agenda. In the digital age, however, there are now multiple channels and ...
Study after study shows that even though women account for more than half of Ghana’s population, 51.2 percent, they remain underrepresented in nearly all levels of leadership in many sectors – ...
Ever since the Associated Press started to fully automate the production of company earnings reports almost two years ago, algorithms that automatically write news stories from structured data have ...